Anonymous
Post 09/18/2024 19:06     Subject: stabbing in Friendship Heights
Anonymous wrote:This is because of the vouchers on Connecticut Avenue. It’s natural that if you import problems, you get problems. This is why that project with converting the Chevy Chase Community Center into housing is not a good one.
The same investment could be made in low-income wards and uplift those communities with higher security, better schools, improved housing, etc. But those areas are left to continue deteriorating and, instead, children are bused into NW DC schools, vouchers are handed out, etc. The Target on Tenleytown no longer admits youths without adult supervision, there have been shoot outs in Conn Ave apartment buildings with vouchers, crime is on the rise in that corridor….including a rape on Woodley Park/Cleveland Park just a few weeks ago? Is DC so blind to see all this?


Spreads the DC police thin.
Anonymous
Post 09/18/2024 19:05     Subject: stabbing in Friendship Heights
Anonymous wrote:This isn’t a surprise for DC. It’s only marginally surprising because it’s right on MD border and in Chevy Chase, where a tiny house will cost well over a million. People pay the high prices to be safe and away from DC crime.


You're clueless.
Anonymous
Post 09/18/2024 18:57     Subject: stabbing in Friendship Heights
Almost rented on Connecticut avenue, Saratoga I think. Something felt off when most of the people were in the hallways in the middle of the day.
Anonymous
Post 09/18/2024 18:26     Subject: stabbing in Friendship Heights
This is because of the vouchers on Connecticut Avenue. It’s natural that if you import problems, you get problems. This is why that project with converting the Chevy Chase Community Center into housing is not a good one.
The same investment could be made in low-income wards and uplift those communities with higher security, better schools, improved housing, etc. But those areas are left to continue deteriorating and, instead, children are bused into NW DC schools, vouchers are handed out, etc. The Target on Tenleytown no longer admits youths without adult supervision, there have been shoot outs in Conn Ave apartment buildings with vouchers, crime is on the rise in that corridor….including a rape on Woodley Park/Cleveland Park just a few weeks ago? Is DC so blind to see all this?
Anonymous
Post 09/18/2024 17:42     Subject: stabbing in Friendship Heights
This isn’t a surprise for DC. It’s only marginally surprising because it’s right on MD border and in Chevy Chase, where a tiny house will cost well over a million. People pay the high prices to be safe and away from DC crime.
Anonymous
Post 09/18/2024 16:57     Subject: stabbing in Friendship Heights
Anonymous wrote:All of DC is a shithole. Go to the Chevy Chase Safeway and see homeless guys harrassing shoppers and others walking around half naked and high as kites.


Anonymous
Post 09/18/2024 16:57     Subject: stabbing in Friendship Heights
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Sounds like you can’t handle the city.


That’s barely “the city.”


No, FH is the city. The fast food restaurants, sit down dining, nearby schools and library as well as hard to come by parking make it city living.

OP, you might want to think twice about paying for a house in DC proper.
Anonymous
Post 09/18/2024 16:42     Subject: stabbing in Friendship Heights
Anonymous wrote:Sounds like you can’t handle the city.


Meaning urban “vibrancy.”
Anonymous
Post 09/18/2024 16:32     Subject: stabbing in Friendship Heights
All of DC is a shithole. Go to the Chevy Chase Safeway and see homeless guys harrassing shoppers and others walking around half naked and high as kites.
Anonymous
Post 09/18/2024 16:26     Subject: stabbing in Friendship Heights
That is terrifying - I live near that area and it's my metro stop.

While it's not generally unsafe, FH has gotten more rundown. Many of the stores around there have closed, more homeless people and just feels more downtrodden. The SFH neighborhoods nearby are fine but there is some crime bc it's convenient for perpetrators to flee across the borders bn MD and DC - seems like there is not great police coordination sometimes.

The 1st DC homicide of the year was at a FH hotel over NYE.
Anonymous
Post 09/18/2024 16:21     Subject: stabbing in Friendship Heights
Not normal for the area but still concerning. You are not truly safe anywhere. Gotta keep your eyes open at all times and be aware of your surroundings.
Anonymous
Post 09/18/2024 16:16     Subject: stabbing in Friendship Heights
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Sounds like you can’t handle the city.


That’s barely “the city.”


ya... that part is very quite and semi-suburban. Surprised to read this as well.
Anonymous
Post 09/18/2024 15:46     Subject: stabbing in Friendship Heights
Anonymous wrote:Sounds like you can’t handle the city.


That’s barely “the city.”
Anonymous
Post 09/18/2024 15:40     Subject: stabbing in Friendship Heights
Sounds like you can’t handle the city.
Anonymous
Post 09/18/2024 15:14     Subject: stabbing in Friendship Heights
https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/woman-stabbed-outside-friendship-heights-metro-station/3718465/?os=io.&ref=app


I thought this area is supposed to be safe. Currently in the market for a house close to FH metro, not sure to treat this as freak accident or indicative of crime trends around here. This happened during broad day light when that area has lots of pedestrians and foot traffic.